Abraham Lincoln was born on an isolated farm in the slave state of Kentucky to an illiterate father, who could only "bunglingly" write his name. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The greatest favors may be done so awkwardly and bunglingly as to offend; and disagreeable things may be done so agreeably as almost to oblige. ❋ Unknown (2005)
His father could, as Abraham said later in his life, "bunglingly sign his own name but was otherwise illiterate." ❋ Unknown (1994)
At the trial I hope to bare the whole structure of the police provocation prepared, bunglingly, by Captain Piotrowski's chums in Gdansk. ❋ Michnik, Adam (1985)
"I know very little about ladies 'dress," he said apologetically, "and I fear I may express myself rather bunglingly, but to me the chief beauty of your gown consists in the fact that it reveals and enhances the beauty of the wearer; in that sense, I consider it very beautiful." ❋ J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand (N/A)
That part of his life-story was done with; it had been interpreted bunglingly and ignorantly to be sure, but the lesson, learned by failure, had sunk deep in his heart. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The relation of the parties to each other is a great mystification, bunglingly managed: we cannot understand at last how Victor, the hero of the chief love-passage, turns out to be the son of a clergyman instead of a lord, and Flamin the son of a lord in spite of the plain declaration on the first page that he belongs to a clergyman. ❋ Various (N/A)
He never did more in the way of writing than bunglingly to write his own name .... ❋ Jasper Leonidas McBrien (N/A)
The meal Crossman had bunglingly prepared lay untouched on the table. ❋ Various (N/A)
With fingers stiff from their hold upon the dock-rail he began, bunglingly, to detach this chain from his waistcoat. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
By doing it well, he may help to kindle a flame in a lady's heart; at all events, to do it bunglingly would be ill-bred. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
Probably the address, bunglingly adjusted on the side instead of the top, or else a stain of mud from the late rough drive. ❋ Eugenia Dunlap Potts (N/A)
When he did, though, he hurried bunglingly, in spite of a nervous flash in which after accidentally touching the revolver in his pocket he almost threw it through the pane of the nearest window before he considered. ❋ Stephen Vincent Ben��t (1920)
The blocks were knocked away clumsily, the falls overhauled bunglingly for the next boat. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Should reason have been communicated to this favoured creature over and above, it must only have served it to contemplate the happy constitution of its nature, to admire it, to congratulate itself, thereon and to feel thankful for it to the beneficent cause, but not that it should subject its desires to that weak and delusive guidance, and meddle bunglingly with the purpose of nature. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He perceived the dagger bunglingly concealed in the hand which was treacherously extended as if to his assistance. ❋ Unknown (1906)
With this wrapped bunglingly in his note he proceeded to ambush near Pleasant Valley. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)
It was my desire to change his course, but I went at it either too late or bunglingly. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
Throughout this volume we have assumed that much of our ethical maladjustment in social affairs arises from the fact that we are acting upon a code of ethics adapted to individual relationships, but not to the larger social relationships to which it is bunglingly applied. ❋ Jane Addams (1897)
Well, he did, with the greatest pleasure he had ever known without any exception, and if the kiss were a bit bunglingly given that could be excused on the plea of lack of experience. ❋ George Rathborne (1896)
